New Deployment--Advice

[Derek Ethier]

There has been discussion on the Google Apps API group around integration with
CAS with an extended SAML interface. You might want to check out the group at:
http://groups.google.com/group/google-apps-apis/topics?start=

I'm interested in the Blackboard integration with the Shib plugin, do you have
any documentation around that?

d.

Yale CAS mailing list <cas at tp.its.yale.edu> on April 23, 2007 at 9:34 AM -0500
wrote:
>We have been testing CAS for the last month or so, but can't seem to nail down
>a configuration that serves all our needs.  Things keep getting scuttled as
>new needs arise and possibilities become available.  Perhaps some input from
>those more experienced could help.
> 
>On June 1, I need to deploy a simple portal.  The portal will provide 9,000
>students with access to content and services they need to use regularly.  We
>have looked at many portal solutions, but decided to hack up Moodle and use
>it.  There are many reasons for this, but the most important one is that we
>know Moodle well and have talented PHP/MySQL folks on staff.  It will work for
>what we are trying to do.
> 
>The first goal of this project is to get everyone using a single account.  We
>have a variety of systems running and over the years each evolved it's own
>account structure.  We have solved this issue.  We are importing all student
>accounts from our student management system into Active Directory.  This makes
>AD our basic directory service.
> 
>However, we would also like to make SSO available.  This is where things get a
>bit more complicated.  We use Blackboard (AKA WebCT) CE 6.0., Moodle 1.8,
>Google Apps for email, and a legacy student management system.  CAS helps with
>several of these applications.  I have found "recipes" that will help adapt
>these applications, but there are some trouble spots.  
> 
>Blackboard--It seems like the best way to integrate Blackboard is to use the
>Shibboleth Power Link available from Blackboard.
> 
>Moodle 1.8--Moodle has a CAS plug-in, but it is broken for 1.8, Moodle's
>latest release.  It has been assigned in Moodle's bug tracker, but no
>estimated date is available, and I need to have this portal available on June
>1.  Moodle also has a Shibboleth plug-in which apparently works in Moodle 1.8.
> 
>Google Apps--Google has an API using SAML 2.0.
> 
>Student Management System--Will have to be customized.  This is a legacy
>application with no support for SSO.
> 
>I am primarily concerned about SSO for the first three
>applications--Blackboard, Moodle, and Google Apps.  The third is a work in
>progress.
> 
>Blackboard and Moodle will work with Shibboleth, so I have considered
>installing CAS 3.07 using the Shibboleth plug-in.  However, this doesn't help
>with Google Apps.  CAS 3.1m2 supports SAML, but I don't know whether is
>supports SAML 2.0, and it is not a production release.  Still, this might be
>worth a gamble since it seems to meet all the needs.
> 
>Any advice?
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